As such, some posts on this blog are more geared more towards specific MA assignments, rather than you, the dear audience.

So, in case you hadn’t guessed by the featured image of dry Tweet Reach graphs (YES, GRAPHS!), this is one of those posts. If this type of blog post isn’t your cup of tea, please feel free to leave now, I shall not be offended. Honest.

If on the other hand, you’re one of the few that are, I’ll be using this post to round-up my tentative proddings into the worlds of data journalism, data visualisation and ‘snowfall’ in this rather exhaustive blog post.

Visit rates were huge, and bounce-rates low, as the video and embedded interactive elements for the Pulitzer winning pice by John Branch.

Alongside instantly coining its own rather pretentious verb (“we need to snow fall this”), the article took a team of developers six weeks to produce.

But the success of it inevitably meant other journalists, publications and content creators, both big and small, naturally wanted to create their own versions – and ideally without the 6 weeks of hand-built development work by a team of high-end web developers. Continue reading How do you make your own ‘Snow Fall’ effect?→